#queer nation

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Outrage! sticker, 1991

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The fight for bisexual youth is not rhetorical or symbolic; it is a material struggle over whether bisexual people are permitted to have a lifespan. Youth protection is the infrastructure of elderhood. When bisexual young people are erased from schools, denied competent healthcare, dismissed by families, or pathologized as “confused” or “temporary,” the result is not ambiguity it is attrition. People burn out, disappear from community, age into poverty and isolation, or die younger. This is how histories are amputated before they mature. Bisexual elders do not emerge spontaneously; they are produced only when young people are given language early, safety consistently, and dignity without preconditions. Every demand that a bi youth fragment themselves to be tolerated straight enough here, queer enough there is a quiet foreclosure on their future. A movement that claims to value queer futures while treating bisexual youth as expendable is not neutral; it is actively manufacturing a future without continuity.

Bisexual elders are living archives, but they are also evidence of the cost of survival in the absence of protection. Many carry decades of medical neglect, economic precarity, family estrangement, and movement level betrayal because no one intervened early enough. Protecting bisexual youth is how that damage stops reproducing itself. It is how aging becomes something other than shrinking visibility and accumulating loss. This fight is about housing, mental healthcare, education, data integrity, and community structures that do not abandon people once they age out of trend cycles or respectability politics. The stakes are brutally concrete: who lives long enough to mentor, who gets remembered, and who is allowed to exist without apology across an entire life. If we want bisexual elders tomorrow, we must defend bisexual youth now with zero ambiguity. Anything less is not oversight it is complicity.

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We're celebrating Brenda Howard today!

Born on December 24th, 1946 in New York City, Brenda Howard was a Bisexual Rights Activist and Sex Positive Feminist.

Her activities included taking part in the anti-Vietnam war movement, an active member of the Gay Liberation Front, chair of the Gay Activist Alliance's speakers bureau, member of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Act Up, and Queer Nation, and pushed for inclusivity and helped guide Gay Rights towards the New York City Council.

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Queer Nation

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QUEERS READ THIS

A leaflet distributed at pride march in NY. Published anonymously by Queers: June 1990

“How can I tell you. How can I convince you, brother, sister that your life is in danger: That everyday you wake up alive, relatively happy, and a functioning human being, you are committing a rebellious act. You as an alive and functioning queer are a revolutionary.”

“I'm angry. I'm angry for being condemned to death by strangers saying, ‘You deserve to die’ and ‘AIDS is the cure.’ Fury erupts when a Republican woman wearing thousands of dollars of garments and jewelry minces by the police lines shaking her head, chuckling and wagging her finger at us like we are recalcitrant children making absurd demands and throwing temper tantrum when they aren't met. Angry while Joseph agonizes over $8,000 for AZT which might keep him alive a little longer and which makes him sicker than the disease he is diagnosed with. Angry as I listen to a man tell me that after changing his will five times he's running out of people to leave things to. All of his best friends are dead. Angry when I stand in a sea of quilt panels, or go to a candlelight march or attend yet another memorial service. I will not march silently with a fucking candle and I want to take that goddamned quilt and wrap myself in it and furiously rend it and my hair and curse every god religion ever created. I refuse to accept a creation that cuts people down in the third decade of their life.”

“The straight world has us so convinced that we are helpless and deserving victims of the violence against us, that queers are immobilized when faced with a threat. BE OUTRAGED! These attacks must not be tolerated. DO SOMETHING. Recognize that any act of aggression against any member of our community is an attack on every member of the community. The more we allow homophobes to inflict violence, terror and fear on our lives, the more frequently and ferociously we will be the object of their hatred.”

“I hate straight people who can't listen to queer anger without saying ‘hey, all straight people aren't like that. I'm straight too, you know,’ as if their egos don't get enough stroking or protection in this arrogant, heterosexist world. Why must we take care of them, in the midst of our just anger brought on by their fucked up society?! Why add the reassurance of ‘Of course, I don't mean you. You don't act that way.’ Let them figure out for themselves whether they deserve to be included in our anger.”

“The strong sisters told the brothers that there were two important things to remember about the coming revolutions, the first is that we will get our asses kicked. The second, is that we will win."

QUEERS READ THIS

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Is Queer a slur?

Who thinks queer is acceptable to use and who doesn't? The answer is interesting.

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From the archives: Vintage Queer Nation stickers circa 1991-3

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